MYTravelGuide Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect identifiable information (“Personal Data”) submitted voluntarily from customers and travel services alike. This information is used to make MYTravelGuide easier to use. This includes information submitted as part of attraction and hotel reviews and user profiles. These profiles are used to make the services available on the Site easier to use. This includes favorite places, recently viewed places and visitor information needed to make helpful travel recommendations.

MYTravelGuide may also contact you via email or email newsletter to request feedback on your experience using MYTravelGuide. This is done to assist us in improving our site, or to offer special savings or promotions to you later via email. If you would prefer not to receive special savings or promotions via email, you may simply unsubscribe or “opt-out” at any time. To unsubscribe, simply reply to MYTravelGuide using the hyperlink provided in these notices.

Links to Other Sites from MYTravelGuide

We provide links to various sites on the Internet, not owned or operated by MYTravelGuide, to better help you research travel destinations like hotels, airports, attractions, and restaurants. We are not responsible however, for the privacy policies operations of other outside web sites, even though links to them may be provided.

Use of Cookies on Our Site

To provide you with personalized services on our site, we use “cookies” technology. Cookies allow you to access previously viewed areas of MYTravelGuide faster and with better quality so that you can easily find your favorite place. Cookies do this by storing images and text on to your hard-drive. The cookies we us in no way however, store or read any personal or specific information about our users.

We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads while you are visiting our site and permit these companies to place and access their own cookies on your computer in the course of serving advertisements on this site. These companies may use information obtained through their cookie (which does not include your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other web sites, in combination with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not ours. Such advertisers do not have access to our cookies.

In addition, we may share web site usage information about visitors to our sites with these companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our site and other sites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place pixel tags (also called clear gifs) on some of the pages you visit on our site. We will then use the non-personally identifiable information that is collected using these pixel tags to serve you relevant advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet. These advertisements may be targeted to specific searches you conducted on priceline.com during earlier browsing sessions.

If you would like more information about the information collection practices of third-party advertising companies and your choices about not having this information used by these companies or opt out of online preference marketing, click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp and here: http://priceline.direct-messaging.com/optout.html. If you wish to block other cookies, including those being served by companies that are not part of the Network Advertising Initiative click here. However, without cookies you may not have access to certain features on our Site, including access to your profile/account and certain personalized content.

You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer's hard drive by searching for files with "cookie" in it. This action could affect your subsequent visits to certain web sites, including the priceline.com web site, by requiring that, for example, you enter you login name when you return to that web site.

To learn more about cookies, you can link to the following third-party web sites: http://www.cookiecentral.com, http://www.w3.org/, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie. These links are provided for your information only. Priceline.com is not affiliated with any of these third-party sites and does not make any representations or warranties about the information they contain.

Sharing Your Personal Data

MYTravelGuide does not sell or rent your Personal Data to anyone. MYTravelGuide may share your Personal Data with its subsidiaries, and as described below:

Certain Services: In order to provide you with certain services, we may share your Personal Data with one of our third party partners, or require that you transact directly with a third party partner. Below is a list of such services:

MYTravelGuide’s E-mail Alerts: Many of the operations we perform require us to hire other companies to help us with these tasks. For example, MYTravelGuide hires companies to help us handle mail and e-mail (including sending and delivering packages, postal mail and e-mail) analyze the data we collect, market our products and services, handle credit card transactions and provide customer service. The companies we employ to help us with these tasks have access to Personal Data to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Also, MYTravelGuide requires all agents to whom Personal Data is disclosed to enter into confidentiality agreements to protect your Personal Data.

Future Business Transfers: Our business is constantly changing. As part of that process, MYTravelGuide may sell or buy other companies, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of these transactions. It is also possible that MYTravelGuide, or substantially all of its assets, may be acquired by another company, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of such a transaction.

Compliance with Law and Protection of MYTravelGuide: MYTravelGuide reserves the right to release Personal Data in order to comply with the law. We may also release Personal Data to enforce or apply the terms and conditions applicable to our products and services, or protect the rights, property or safety of MYTravelGuide, our users, or others.

Consent: If none of the categories described above apply, we will notify you to obtain your consent if we believe it is necessary and appropriate to share your Personal Data with someone else. You will have the right to tell us not to share your Personal Data.

Accuracy of Information

While MYTravelGuide.com makes all reasonable attempts to ensure the accuracy of the information neither MYTravelGuide.com nor its content providers can be held responsible by the customer for the accuracy of the information for the MYTravelGuide.com website.

Some picture and attraction information on MYTravelGuide.com has been licensed from Wcities.com, Inc. Images and information from Wcities.com has been labeled, “Copyright © 1999-2004 wcities.com All rights Reserved“. Any comments or questions about said information should be directed to Wcities at: http://www.wcities.com/contactus/index.html.

MYTravelGuide.com MAKES NO EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY ON MERCHANTABILITY OF CONTENT OR PROGRAMING AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MYTravelGuide.com WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

Accuracy of Pricing Information

MYTravelGuide.com is not a booking agent and does not charge any service fees to users of our site. The consumer should be aware that agents who list travel product with MYTravelGuide.com may not have included all fees and surcharges in their listed prices. Airfares, in particular, are frequently subject to additional fees (many of which are required by law). Examples include the Federal September 11th Security Fee, international departure and arrival taxes and fees, federal excise tax, and other service, handling and miscellaneous fees and surcharges.

Furthermore, MYTravelGuide.com. makes no guarantees for availability of prices advertised on the site. Listed prices may require a stay of a particular length or have blackout dates, qualifications or restrictions.

Amendments & Future Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was posted on December 2004. MYTravelGuide reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this Privacy Policy, MYTravelGuide will abide by the terms described in this Privacy Policy at the time you provided us with your information. MYTravelGuide will also prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.